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Rather than a maturity model framework, we intend to document capabilities that systems can have for connections between health and supply chain.

Product identification
- Has a definition of a Commodity/Product
- Differentiates between Commodity/Product and Items*
- Has a definition of a Lot/Batch
- Defines Lot/Batch in terms of Items
- Items may have GTIN
- Items define which Commodity/Product systems they belong to
- Items may belong to many Commodity/Product systems
- Has a definition for Item serial #
- Orderable Commodities/Products define just enough attributes in addition to the Commodity classification that give them use in two parties carrying out a re-supply request and fulfilment cycle. This allows a store that needs more of a commodity, to order that commodity, and gives the fulfilling store choice in which items will be used to fulfill for that ordered commodity.
Inventory
- Transactions / movements are immutable.
- Stock events/movements may be recorded
  - By Location (Facility, Store room, Refrigerator, etc)
  - By Program - you know how many bandages you have accepted by the Malaria program as opposed to how many were accepted by the EPI program
  - By Commodity
  - By Item
    - By Lot
      - By Serial #
  - By expiration date (without knowing Lot)
  - By date the physical event occurred
  - By date entered into system
  - Expressed fundamentally by Credits and Debits
  - Define Stock Adjustment Reasons for an event occurring (e.g. stock was received, stock was lost due to cold chain failure, etc)
  - Stock Reasons may be grouped into larger semantics (e.g. these 3 debit reasons together define Open Vial Wastage, and these other two define Closed Vial Wastage).
- Stock on Hand may be reported:
  - ...
Fulfillment
Re-supply
Location Alignment
Product Alignment
WIP

*For definitions of terminology such as 'Item' or 'Commodity', see the Product Identification Terminology.